About the Project

The Conversion Process

The materials in the MOA collection were scanned from the original paper
source, with materials disbound locally due to the brittle nature of many
of the items. The conversion of the materials was outsourced to
Northern Micrographics, Inc., a service vendor in LaCrosse, WI. The
images were captured at 600 dpi in TIFF image format and compressed using
CCITT Group 4. Minimal document structuring occurred at the point of
conversion, primarily linking image numbers to pagination and tagging
self-referencing portions of the text. In the case of serials, low-level
indexing was added post-conversion by the partner institutions;
Cornell and Michigan staff are collaborating to determine low-level
indexing guidelines for this complex group of serial titles.

Further conversion
included both optical character
recognition of the page images, and SGML-encoding of the ensuing textual
information. For more information, please consult information About this Online Implementation.